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Students who have graduated from our programs have found careers in teaching, administration, journalism, film production, public relations, marketing, and publishing.

About the Department

Welcome to the Department of English and Film Studies. Our
department is composed of 21 full time faculty members and a smaller
number of contract academic staff. Each year, we are home to about 700
undergraduate students working towards their Honours, combined Honours,
Major, or Minor in English and/ or Film Studies degrees; and to about 30
graduate students, working at the PhD and Master's levels.

The English program offers students a chance to explore
British, American, Canadian, and other literatures from the Medieval
period to the present. In keeping with the lively and vibrant
developments in English studies, our undergraduate courses are organized
in various ways: according to historical periods, nationalities,
genres, themes, and theoretical issues. Graduate courses, taught by
scholars who are internationally-known researchers, are offered in a
wide range of fields and topics. We are particularly strong in these
areas: Gender and Genre; Early Modern; Canadian, Postcolonial,
and Twentieth-Century Culture, Literature, and Film.

The emphasis of the Film Studies program
is on reading film as narrative and as text. Students are introduced to
a variety of films from Europe, Britain, Canada and the U.S.; to
different film genres; to the history of cinema from the silent movies
on; and to current film theories. Courses in both English and Film
Studies develop students' ability to read and write, perform critical
analyses, respond to works in their socio - cultural and historical
contexts, as well as provide a solid grounding in literary or film
studies.

The Department offers a Master of Arts in Gender, Nation, and Media which can be completed in 8-12 months. We also have a PhD program in English and Film Studies
where students can focus on literature and/ or film. Our programs
emphasize issues of representation, narrative styles, genres, and
culture in a global context.

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